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Cassie Heart
@cassie
Ex-Coinbase founders are the modern Xerox PARC I swear to god
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
Can you unpack more on this theme @cassie? Do you mean like(?): Lick → 60's (ARPA/DARPA) → then finishing off in the 70's what was started in the 60's within a funded corporate lab, when the funding winds changed? The pedigree of the Coinbase crew is extreme!
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
Especially the 70's era where the experiments were gelling together into real (albeit expensive) products (e.g. the Alto) - desktop metaphor - GUI - mouse - wysiwyg typesetting - wysiwyg circuit designer - rasterized graphics
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